Thursday, January 5, 2012

STRANGE QUESTS

People develop very interesting 'quests' in life.  One may wonder why someone wants to risk life to climb the sheer face of a precipice,  ski down the 18 degree face of a mountain, or try to fly a balloon around the world.  However,The Huffington Post ran an article about Mr. Pee-Pee, a serial masturbater,  this particular feat seems more pointless than most others because any male (or female for that matter) could achieve it if they so chose.  I'm not sure the whole quest would really 'grab' a woman anyway.  I'm not even sure why a male chose to do it, for that matter. While a picture of a male's achievement might confirm each destination and proof of goal, the picture would probably not be effective for a woman.  So be it.

John Gray
John Gray and Will Self come to the RSA (Rhetoric Society of America) to discuss the great implication of Darwin's ideas - that natural selection makes humans into animals like any other. The Talk is:Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

Listen to this YouTube talk. This is a full lecture and may be too long and heavy for some who prefer spending less time on a subject, however, it will be fascinating for those readers who want a challenge to their thinking.  This English author (not to be confused with the John Gray who wrote Men Are From Mars and Women Are From Venus.) deals with Darwinism, Huxley, Wells, and many philosophers and great thinkers. 

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